In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

Michael Caine is a movie star, but he's also a great actor. I can't say that about every movie star. It's the concentration he has.

A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.

In America there's no rights for the artist, so whatever films I've made kind of belong to the studio.

Everything Sholom Aleichem talks about in his plays and his short stories is about people, family, man's relationship with his God, the breaking down of tradition.

I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you're going spend a year or a year and a half on this and you know there are only so many films in you so you get a little bit more selective.

I was very disappointed that Denzel didn't win Best Actor for The Hurricane because I thought he deserved it.